Terms of use

UK Sport is acting on behalf of eventIMPACTS a collaboration between the Department of Culture Media & Sport, discovernorthernireland.com, EventScotland, London & Partners, Welsh Government and UK Sport (“the Partners”).

The domain www.eventimpacts.com (‘the website’) has been designed, built and hosted by the United Kingdom Sports Council (‘UK Sport’) on behalf of the Partners. By using or accessing any part of the website you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the websites and continue to apply thereafter. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use the website.

Change of Terms

UK Sport may change these terms at any time by posting changes on the websites. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Invalidity of terms

If any of the following terms and conditions is illegal, invalid or unenforceable this will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.

Applicable Laws

The relationship between you and the UK Sport will be governed by English law. You agree to submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

Website disclaimer

Whilst UK Sport will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the information on the website is accurate and check and test the website and material contained on them all information, products and services (or third party information, products and services) are provided to the fullest extent permitted by law ‘as is’ and without any representation or endorsement and without any warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

UK Sport cannot guarantee the functions contained in the material contained on the website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website or the servers that make them available are error or virus free or represent full functionality, accuracy, reliability of materials accuracy of the website and all information contained in them. In no event shall UK Sport be liable for any loss or damage, including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, whatsoever arising from the use or loss of data, profits arising out of or in connection with your use of the websites.

Visitors who rely on information on the sites do so at their own risk. All tools made available on the website are provided as tools for estimating the different types of impact by the event. The estimates are dependent on the information provided by visitors. The tools provided are to enable estimation and are not predictions or guarantees that the estimations will result in an actual impact.

Visitors should run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the internet. UK Sport does not accept any liability for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst your use of website and the material contained on its websites.

Copyright and intellectual property

All content of the website including but not limited to the text, photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, designs and other material including the program and code that operates this website (together the "content") is protected by copyright, trade mark and/or other proprietary rights owned by or licensed to UK Sport. You may not download print or copy any content from this website. Copying of our logos and/or any third party logos from the websites is not permitted without our prior written approval.

Provided you have given us with name of your organisation, your name and email address, you are permitted to download any the event impacts information made available for personal, research, educational and non-commercial use. The event impacts information is being provided for use and re-use under the Non-Commercial Government Licence for public sector information.

Linked websites

UK Sport provides links to websites maintained by other organisations as part of the site, but is not responsible for their content, accuracy of their content or endorse any externally linked sites or the views expressed within them. Listing a website link shall not be taken as an endorsement of any kind. UK Sport does not guarantee that these external links will always work.

UK Sport does not have any control over the availability of linked pages, to notify UK Sport of broken/outdated links, please e-mail eventimpacts@uksport.gov.uk  

Data protection and privacy statement

Any personal information that you provide to the websites will handled by UK Sport in line with, but not limited to, the Data Protection Act 1998, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 as amended from time to time.

Your information will not be used for any other purpose and will not be disclosed to any other parties or transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area.

We will take reasonable and appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is protected from unauthorised access or modification, unlawful destruction and improper use.

For more information see the privacy statement.

Please note that the Internet is an open system and UK Sport cannot and does not guarantee that the personal information you have submitted will not be intercepted by others and decrypted. (See ‘Website disclaimer’ section above.)

Changes to our privacy statement

If our privacy statement changes, the changes will be posted on the website so that you will always know what information is gathered, how it is used and whether it will be disclosed to anyone.

If you do submit your name and email address to download the information provided, you consent to the use of your information as set out in the privacy statement.

Use of IP addresses

We log IP addresses only for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of the website. This is automatically recognised by the web server. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that while your user session will be logged, you will remain anonymous to us.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Our website uses cookies so that we can remember you and understand how you and other visitors use our website. To see a complete list of these cookies and to find out how you can tell us whether you want us to use them on your device or not, please access our Cookies Policy.

Contact us

If you have any questions about these terms of use, linking policy privacy statement, data protection or website issues generally, you can contact eventimpacts@uksport.gov.uk

If you have any comments or questions about the accuracy of information on the websites, please contact the eventsimpacts@uksport.gov.uk

Emails received in error

If you receive any UK Sport email communication from UK Sport in error please contact the sender and copy the communication to eventimpacts@uksport.gov.uk  and info@uksport.gov.uk to ensure it is picked up quickly.

Communications and attachments sent by UK Sport may contain information which is confidential and may also be subject to professional privilege. Such communications are for the exclusive use of the sender(s) and recipient(s). Non intended recipient(s) of such information should note that any form of distribution, copying, printing or use of UK Sport’s communications or their attachments or the information contained therein is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.